Month: December 2015

Episode 47 – December 24, 2015

Office 365 Planner – a new experience in Office 365 that offers a simple, visual way to organize teamwork. Microsoft has started rolling out Planner preview to Office 365 First Release customers. Once administrators take the necessary actions, users can start using Planner by launching it from the Office 365 app launcher.

This post by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team, is about new apps and features delivered in December, and updates for Office for Apps devices, Skype for Business for Android, a preview of Office 365 Planner, and new management tools for IT.

Matter Center – is an Office 365 Add-in and SharePoint-based document collaboration solution that seeks to increase productivity for legal professionals while supporting seamless access from any device. Matter Center is available now to a broad community of developers through GitHub.

New SharePoint CSOM version released for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This updated CSOM release contains numerous highly requested new capabilities which will enable new business scenarios and capabilities when you are developing solutions for SharePoint Online.

This is a part 1 of article series by Dan Wahlin and Spike Xavier from ITUnity about the process of creating an external application that can interact with Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Office 365 and SharePoint.

Nick Patel, Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and SharePoint Architect, compiled a list of best practices for modern SharePoint development which would be applicable to SharePoint 2013 on-premises, SharePoint 2016 on-premises, and SharePoint Online.

A lot of things are changing for SharePoint and we see these changes when migrating to Office 365. Delve comes as part of this offering and uses the new Office Graph to surface the information you need. However, it should not be considered as your new Intranet.

One of the complaints while working with SP2016 Beta 2 right now is that the Visual Studio 2015 Office Developer Tools Preview SharePoint Hosted Add-In will not deploy. This post shows how to fix the issue.

One of the more common questions about Office 365 has been – what happens to my data after my organization’s Office 365 subscription ends? The most common answer circulated in the community refers to a grace period of 30 days, during which you can still retrieve your data.

With the recent release of SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2, SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 enables you to integrate SQL Server business intelligence and reporting into SharePoint 2016. Here you will find a whitepaper and download links to help you get up and running.

Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) December 2015 release is out with new contributions from community for the community. This post contains all the details related on what was included with the release and what else has been happening in the PnP world during the past month.

As many of you know, Pluralsight is one, if not the best source of on demand video learning. With over 4500 courses, and expert instructors it’s hard not to see the value of having access to such a great library. Until December 31st, You can get a free 6 months subscription to the full Pluralsight Library in order to learn those skills in the new year! If you see this blog post after December 31st , you should still be able to get a 3 month subscription!

Now that the SharePoint 2016 is also arriving relatively soon, we are getting more and more questions around the on-premises setup around the SharePoint add-in/app model. Target of this blog post is to address some of the most common questions around the infrastructural setup for on-premises and to clarify what are the options from the infrastructure perspective.

Mintroles is a new concept inside SharePoint 2016. You need another web front end? No problem, just deploy another server with the Front-End minrole, and voila, there you go – no need to think about services which should run on that server, Microsoft is doing that sort of thinking for you now. In this article Adis Jugo shares some useful info about this cool feature.

As part of the release of SharePoint 2016, and included since Beta 2, Microsoft included Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Capabilities in SharePoint Server. This blog by Vlad Catrinescu provides step-by-step instructions how to configure DPL.

While the majority of calls using SOAP with SPServices use GetListItems to get items from lists, changing data with UpdateListItems is probably a close second. In this case, we’re altering data based on some user action. In a way, it’s like repainting your car. The shape and structure of the car stays the same, but you make it look better with new paint. New data can be like that – after all, the list or library itself doesn’t change.

Frequent updates are a core benefit of Office 365, helping you provide the latest releases of your favorite apps and services to your organization. With First Release, you can opt in to receive updates earlier than the Standard Release.

The PowerPivot add-in for SharePoint Server 2016 was published for the first time as part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3.1 Feature Pack. Now customers can take advantage of SharePoint 2016 in their I-enabled farms and benefit from infrastructure advancements, compliance and security enhancements, and numerous performance and reliability improvements.

How much do we actually know about the SharePoint and Office 365 community? Read this interview with Jeremy Thake, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft, about his insights into the future of development with SharePoint and Office 365, how Microsoft is looking to make things easier for developers and how the community plays an important part in their thinking.

Microsoft has released the new Office 365 License (E5), which comes with a whole new range of exclusive features. So what are the main changes that you need to be aware of? Here are some key features that have been added and timeframes for their release in Australia.